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+"""
+Helper Script to convert FSDP shards to safetensor model files, compatible with Huggingface API
+
+The main purpose is to be able to enable users who choose not to enable HF model saves during training, such as enable the `hf_save_interval` parameter, to
+also be able to benefit from a way to create a HF safetensors model.
+
+For FSDP2 model shards, the output directory will be created with the following structure:
+.
+├── added_tokens.json
+├── chat_template.jinja (optional: this file is for chat specific tasks)
+├── config.json
+├── generation_config.json (optional: default decoding parameters)
+├── merges.txt
+├── model.safetensors
+├── special_tokens_map.json
+├── tokenizer.json
+├── tokenizer_config.json
+└── vocab.json
+
+Example usage:
+uv run --isolated --frozen --extra vllm scripts/convert_fsdp_to_hf.py --ckpt-dir /home/ray/ckpts/gsm8k_0.5B_ckpt/global_step_10 --out-dir /home/ray/hf/glob_step_10
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import re
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+import shutil
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional
+
+from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM, AutoModel
+import torch
+
+
+def find_policy_dir(chkpt_dir: Path) -> Path:
+    """
+    Return a Path object to the policy directory
+        - Path to the policy directory
+    """
+    pol = chkpt_dir / "policy"
+    if not pol.exists():
+        print(f"[error] Expected 'policy/' under {chkpt_dir}")
+        raise FileNotFoundError(f"Expected 'policy/' under {chkpt_dir}")
+    return pol
+
+
+def get_model_shards(policy_dir: Path) -> List[Path]:
+    """
+    Return a list of model Path objects
+        - List[Path] of the model shards (the model*.pt files)
+    """
+    shards_paths = sorted(policy_dir.glob("model_world_size_*_rank_*.pt"))
+    if not shards_paths:
+        shards_paths = sorted(policy_dir.glob("model*.pt"))
+    if not shards_paths:
+        print(f"[error] No model shards found under {policy_dir}")
+        raise FileNotFoundError(f"No model shards found under {policy_dir}")
+    return shards_paths
+
+
+# Not used at the moment
+def normalize_key(k: str) -> str:
+    """
+    Return a normalized key to ensure consistency across checkpointing frameworks
+    Example - Attention layer training:
+        "module.encoder.layer.0.attention.self.query.weight"
+        "model.module.encoder.layer.0.attention.self.query.weight"
+        "encoder.layer.0.attention.self.query.weight"
+    These 3 should refer to the same thing, so they should be normalized.
+
+    Function takes string and removes all possible prefixes.
+    """
+    k = re.sub(r"^(module|model)\.", "", k)
+    k = k.replace("_fsdp_wrapped_module.", "")
+    return k
+
+
+def load_single_shard(path: Path) -> Dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
+    """
+    Load a single model shard and return a dictionary of tensors
+        - Dict[str, torch.Tensor]
+    """
+    obj = torch.load(path, map_location="cpu", weights_only=False)
+    for key in ("state_dict", "model", "module"):
+        if isinstance(obj, dict) and key in obj and isinstance(obj[key], dict):
+            obj = obj[key]
+    if not isinstance(obj, dict):
+        raise ValueError(f"Unexpected checkpoint format at {path} (type={type(obj)})")
+    return {k: v for k, v in obj.items() if isinstance(v, torch.Tensor)}
+
+
+def is_vocab_key(k: str) -> bool:
+    """
+    Check for the keys in the state_dict that we want to merge shards for, in a MultiGPU setup
+
+    These keys are the keys in the state_dict that should be merged into a single tensor (from all the shards)
+    """
+    suffixes = (
+        "embed_tokens.weight",
+        "lm_head.weight",
+        "word_embeddings.weight",
+        "wte.weight",
+    )
+    return any(k.endswith(sfx) for sfx in suffixes)
+
+
+def merge_two_shards(
+    existing: torch.Tensor, new_shard: torch.Tensor, key: str, merge_type: Optional[str] = None
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """
+    Merge two tensor shards into a single tensor, containing both the existing and new shards
+    Merge tensors with key in the vocabulary as the default case, always.
+    If key (tensor name) is not in the vocabulary then we merge based on the `merge_type` parameter
+        - (str=default) Default: On the first dimension of the tensor
+        - (str=vocab_parallel) Vocab-parallel (embeddings/lm_head): cat_dim = 0 (batch / words)
+        - (str=col_parallel) Column-parallel linear (weights split output features): cat_dim = 1 (output features)
+        - (str=row_parallel) Row-parallel linear ( weights split input features): cat_dim = 2 (input features)
+        - (str=other) Replicated Parameters (LayerNorm, RMSNorm, rotary, etc): sum existing and new_shard
+
+    If the merge_type is equal to None, then we use heuristic fallback.
+
+    Heuristic Fallback:
+      * If only dim0 differs -> cat dim=0
+      * If only dim1 differs -> cat dim=1
+      * If only dim2 differs -> cat dim=2
+      * If shapes equal -> add (sum)  (useful for row-parallel biases)
+    """
+    if is_vocab_key(key) or merge_type == "default":
+        return torch.cat([existing, new_shard], dim=0)
+
+    if merge_type == "vocab_parallel":
+        return torch.cat([existing, new_shard], dim=0)
+    elif merge_type == "col_parallel":
+        if existing.ndim >= 2 and new_shard.ndim >= 2:
+            return torch.cat([existing, new_shard], dim=1)
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"existing.ndim={existing.ndim}, new_shard.ndim={new_shard.ndim}, cannot do col_parallel merging because at least 2 dimensions of both tensors are required"
+            )
+    elif merge_type == "row_parallel":
+        if existing.ndim >= 3 and new_shard.ndim >= 3:
+            return torch.cat([existing, new_shard], dim=2)
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"existing.ndim={existing.ndim}, new_shard.ndim={new_shard.ndim}, cannot do row_parallel merging because at least 3 dimensions of both tensors are required"
+            )
+        return torch.cat([existing, new_shard], dim=2)
+    elif merge_type == "other":
+        return existing
+    else:
+        ## merge_type = None or unknown, then we simply merge by heuristic
+        if existing.ndim >= 2 and existing.shape[0] != new_shard.shape[0] and existing.shape[1] == new_shard.shape[1]:
+            # Likely word-parallel linear weight (PyTorch Linear is [out, in])
+            return torch.cat((existing, new_shard), dim=0)
+        if existing.ndim >= 2 and existing.shape[0] == new_shard.shape[0] and existing.shape[1] != new_shard.shape[1]:
+            # Likely col-parallel linear weight
+            return torch.cat((existing, new_shard), dim=1)
+        if (
+            existing.ndim >= 3
+            and existing.shape[0] == new_shard.shape[0]
+            and existing.shape[1] == new_shard.shape[1]
+            and existing.shape[2] != new_shard.shape[2]
+        ):
+            # Likely row-parallel linear weight
+            return torch.cat((existing, new_shard), dim=2)
+        if existing.shape == new_shard.shape:
+            # Could be row-parallel bias or replicated tensors.
+            # Try SUM
+            return existing + new_shard
+        raise ValueError(f"Don't know how to merge key '{key}' with shapes {existing.shape} and {new_shard.shape}")
+
+
+def merge_shards(shards_paths: List[Path]) -> Dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
+    """
+    Merge all model shards into a single dictionary of string-based keys to their corresponding tensors
+        - Dict[str, torch.Tensor]
+    """
+    merged: Dict[str, torch.Tensor] = {}
+    for shard in shards_paths:
+        sd = load_single_shard(shard)
+        for k, v in sd.items():
+            nk = k
+            # if nk in merged:
+            #     if merged[nk].shape != v.shape or merged[nk].dtype != v.dtype:
+            #         print(
+            #             f"[error] Key collision with mismatch for '{nk}' between shards "
+            #             f"(existing {merged[nk].shape}/{merged[nk].dtype} vs {v.shape}/{v.dtype})"
+            #         )
+            #         raise ValueError(
+            #             f"Key collision with mismatch for '{nk}' between shards "
+            #             f"(existing {merged[nk].shape}/{merged[nk].dtype} vs {v.shape}/{v.dtype})"
+            #         )
+            #     else:
+            #         # Merging tensors using merge_two_shards with heuristic fallback
+            try:
+                from torch.distributed.tensor import DTensor
+            except (ImportError, AttributeError):
+                DTensor = None
+            try:
+                from torch.distributed.tensor import ShardedTensor
+            except (ImportError, AttributeError):
+                ShardedTensor = None
+            if DTensor is not None and isinstance(v, DTensor):
+                v = v.to_local()
+            if ShardedTensor is not None and isinstance(v, ShardedTensor):
+                v = v.local_tensor()
+
+            if nk in merged:
+                print(
+                    f"Tensors to be merged: (original) with shape {merged[nk].shape} and (newly added) with shape {v.shape}"
+                )
+                merged[nk] = merge_two_shards(merged[nk], v.detach().cpu().contiguous(), key=nk, merge_type="default")
+            else:
+                print(f"Current tensor shape: {v.shape}")
+                merged[nk] = v.detach().cpu().contiguous()
+    if not merged:
+        print("[error] No tensors found in shards")
+        raise RuntimeError("No tensors found in shards")
+    return merged
+
+
+def copy_hf_artifacts(policy_dir: Path, out_dir: Path) -> None:
+    """
+    Copy huggingface artifacts from the policy directory to the output directory
+    - A utility function that copies huggingface artifacts from the policy directory to the output directory
+    """
+    hf_src = policy_dir / "huggingface"
+    out_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    if hf_src.exists():
+        for p in hf_src.iterdir():
+            dst = out_dir / p.name
+            if p.is_file():
+                shutil.copy2(p, dst)
+            elif p.is_dir():
+                if dst.exists():
+                    shutil.rmtree(dst)
+                shutil.copytree(p, dst)
+    else:
+        print("[warn] policy/huggingface not found; you must supply a proper config/tokenizer.", file=sys.stderr)
+
+
+def _materialize_for_safetensors(state_dict) -> Dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
+    """
+    Materialize the state dict for safetensors
+    - A utility function that materializes the state dict for safetensors
+    Essentially converts all torch tensors to local tensors so they can actually be saved.
+    1) DTensor to local tensor
+    2) ShardedTensor to local tensor
+    We do not save meta tensors because they have no data and are not materializable.
+
+    Then after that, convert these local tensors to cpu tensors, and create a new dictionary of keys -> Tensors.
+    """
+    import torch
+
+    new_sd = {}
+    for k, v in state_dict.items():
+        if not isinstance(v, torch.Tensor):
+            new_sd[k] = v
+            continue
+        t = v
+        if type(t).__name__ == "DTensor" and hasattr(t, "to_local"):
+            t = t.to_local()
+        if type(t).__name__ == "ShardedTensor" and hasattr(t, "local_tensor"):
+            t = t.local_tensor()
+        if getattr(t, "is_meta", False):
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Tensor {k} is on meta device; load the real weights before saving.")
+        if type(t).__name__ == "FakeTensor":
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Tensor {k} is a FakeTensor; disable fake tensor mode for save")
+        if t.device.type != "cpu":
+            t = t.to("cpu", non_blocking=False)
+        t = t.detach()
+        if not t.is_contiguous():
+            t = t.contiguous()
+        new_sd[k] = t
+    return new_sd
+
+
+def guess_hf_class(cfg: AutoConfig):
+    """
+    Tries to find a reasonable HF class from config
+    Falls back to the AutoModel architecture if an LM head can't be detected
+    """
+    if getattr(cfg, "is_encoder_decoder", False):
+        return AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
+    archs = getattr(cfg, "architectures", []) or []
+    if any(a.endswith("ForCausalLM") for a in archs):
+        return AutoModelForCausalLM
+    decoders = {"gpt2", "gpt_bigcode", "llama", "mistral", "qwen", "qwen2", "internlm", "mpt", "phi", "falcon"}
+    if getattr(cfg, "model_type", "") in decoders:
+        return AutoModelForCausalLM
+    return AutoModel
+
+
+def validate_load(out_dir: Path):
+    """
+    Optional: sanity-load with HF to ensure the saved safetensors is consumable
+    Loads on the CPU to avoid device / dtype quirk (this may be a problem for loading on GPU which could cause data loading issues)
+    """
+    try:
+        cfg = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(out_dir, local_files_only=True, trust_remote_code=True)
+        HFClass = guess_hf_class(cfg)
+        _ = HFClass.from_pretrained(
+            out_dir, local_files_only=True, device_map=None, dtype="auto", trust_remote_code=True
+        )
+        print("[validate] HF Load OK")
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f"[validate][error] HF Load failed: {e} ", e)
+        raise RuntimeError("HF Load failed")
+
+
+def _untie_shared_tensors(sd) -> Dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
+    """
+    Untie shared tensors
+    - A utility function that unties shared tensors
+    Some tensors may be shared by different keys in that the tensors they point to have the same data pointer.
+    This function takes a state dict and returns a new state dict where the shared tensors have been untied.
+    This is done by creating a new tensor (clone it) for each shared tensor.
+    This allows each key to refer to a UNIQUE tensor
+    """
+    seen = {}
+    for k, v in list(sd.items()):
+        if not isinstance(v, torch.Tensor):
+            continue
+        try:
+            ptr = v.storage().data_ptr()
+        except Exception:
+            continue
+        if ptr in seen:
+            sd[k] = v.clone()
+        else:
+            seen[ptr] = (k, v)
+    return sd
+
+
+def main():
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Convert FSDP checkpoint shards to a HuggingFace safetensors model.")
+    ap.add_argument(
+        "--ckpt-dir", type=str, required=True, help="Path to the checkpoint directory, containing trainer_state.pt"
+    )
+    ap.add_argument("--out-dir", type=str, required=True, help="Output for HF model folder")
+    ap.add_argument(
+        "--validate-load", action="store_true", help="Try loading with the Transformers Module after saving"
+    )
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+    ckpt_dir = Path(args.ckpt_dir).resolve()
+    output_dir = Path(args.out_dir).resolve()
+    policy_dir = find_policy_dir(ckpt_dir)
+    shards_paths = get_model_shards(policy_dir)
+    print(f"[info] Found {len(shards_paths)} model shard(s). ")
+    for s in shards_paths:
+        print(f"[info] - {s}")
+
+    print("[info] Merging shards...")
+    state_dict = merge_shards(shards_paths)
+    print(f"[info] Merged {len(state_dict)} tensors.")
+
+    copy_hf_artifacts(policy_dir, output_dir)
+
+    clean_sd = _materialize_for_safetensors(state_dict)
+    clean_sd = _untie_shared_tensors(clean_sd)
+
+    # save_file(clean_sd, str(weights_path))
+    # print(f"[success] Saved weights to {weights_path}")
+
+    cfg = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(output_dir, local_files_only=True, trust_remote_code=True)
+    HFClass = guess_hf_class(cfg)
+    hf_model = HFClass.from_config(cfg)
+    hf_model.save_pretrained(
+        save_directory=output_dir,
+        state_dict=clean_sd,
+    )
+
+    if args.validate_load:
+        validate_load(output_dir)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()